I planted some turnip seeds at the end of summer to see if I can make use of Texas’ second growing season. The seeds have at least sprouted!
If the seedlings continue to do well I’ll have to thin them, as turnip seeds are very small and I had trouble distributing them evenly. I’m a little worried that I waited too long, but it has been so blazing hot I was afraid seedlings would just cook in the heat.
My pumpkin vines have been merrily growing and spreading all summer. There was a setback in August with the high temperatures, but the vines persisted and continued to send out new trailers, but there has been no other production. No pumpkins. I get the start of a pumpkin, then it goes away.
I don’t think the patch gets enough sunlight for pumpkins. My basil is happy, there, though.
I haven’t been redirecting the pumpkin vines away from my path because it has been too hot outside. Now they have engulfed it.
I have yet to see a pumpkin produced from the vines. Maybe they’ll find enough sunlight on their journey.
Despite my effort to continue to water the cucumber plants, the Texas heat turned the vines crispy. I picked off the small remaining cucumbers and also broke open the ear of … corn? that formed on the volunteer plant in my pumpkin patch.
It all went to the chickens. I do have quite a large basil plant that I will harvest before the weather turns cold, and the pumpkin vines are not crispy, but also not producing fruit.
I was ready to let the cucumber vines go for the summer, they were getting crispy in the intense heat and the cucumbers strangely shaped, and as I collected the watering bags, a large American Bumblebee visited the remaining flowers. Ok. I’ll keep the watering bags coming.
